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Letters Patent No. 69,452, dated Oetelaar 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN DIRT-SGRAPERS.

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To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that we, Gvnus LITTLE and JOEL L. LITTLE, of Van Wert county, and REUBEN M. DALBEY, of Springfield, in the county of Clark, and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dirt-Scrapers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

-reference heingrhad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

In the annexed drawings A represents the hed of the scraper, which is provided with a runner at each side, and a tail-hoard, having the usual metallic cutter at its front end a. B represents a metallic bar, pivoted at each side of the scraper, (at 93,) and extending forward of the cutter a, and to which the power is applied for operating the machine. Pivoted at the same points x, on the sides of the runners, is a metallic bar, C, which forms the handles for the operator, and extends tothe rear of the bed. This bar is provided with a stay, E, in the rear of the tail-board, and a small spring, e e, connected at each side near the pivots x x. G G represent metallic plates, which are attached to the outside of the runners near the tail-board, and which are provided with two notches, z z, as shown in fig. 3, and` slightly hevelled on the parts above the notches, so that thc springs e e will pass over the beveland catch under the shoulders thus fornied. D represents a horizontal har extending from the rear part of the handle C, over the stay E, and projecting just over thevtop of the tailbcard. c is a small spring lying parallel with the stay, and catching over a pin in the har D for throwing back in its proper place.

It will be seen that the scraper can be readily revolved on its pivots z zr, whenever so desired. The horse 0r other power is applied to the har B, and the scraper operated by a person standing at the rear of the handle C. After the cutter a has filled the hed sufficiently, the operator draws the rod D and releases the scraper, when, at the same time, he elevates the handles and presses the cutter in the ground enough to allow the weight of the scraper to force the springs e e open and the scraper make a revolution.

When the tail-hoard has assumed the place of the cutter it is slightly held above the earth by small hars b b, so as to more easily be turned the other half-way around.

Having thus fully described nur invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I. The plates G G, constructed as described, in combination with the springs e e on the bar C', in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

2. The rod D, bar C, and springs e e, arranged in combination with the scraper A, as constructed and for the purposes specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our` hands this second day of April, 1867.

GYRUS LITTLE, JOEL L. LITTLE,

Witnesses: REUBEN M. DALBEY.

J. KREIDER Mowlm, GEO. Mownn. 

